It's legal to kill a dog for any reason, as long as you do it "humanely." People have their pets euthanized all the time, sometime just because they want a new puppy (people suck). So what this guy did was grotesque, but not illegally cruel.

Lordserb:durbnpoisn: The death may have been instantanious, sure. But the horror and fear that dog was going through as it was getting explosives strapped to it's body, would certainly qualify as cruelty.

As sad as this all is, there is no way i'm buying that argument. Likely the dog was just as happy as it was before...it can't reason about its future demise.

Lordserb:durbnpoisn: The death may have been instantanious, sure. But the horror and fear that dog was going through as it was getting explosives strapped to it's body, would certainly qualify as cruelty.

As sad as this all is, there is no way i'm buying that argument. Likely the dog was just as happy as it was before...it can't reason about its future demise.

Exactly. At most, it sniffed at the explosives, decided they weren't snausages, and followed the "stay" instructions.